Utusan Malaysia Online, 26 April 2012

On 13 April 2012, Ocean Elements once again successfully organised a Project AWARE Beach Cleanup event in Dungun, Terengganu. This is the second year we organised such an event in Dungun and our fifth year of organising a Project AWARE coral reef conservation program.

This year’s event was wholly sponsored by Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad (Bank Islam) as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives.

400 people, mostly from schools and academic institutions in Dungun area and the government agencies turned up to help clean the 10km stretch of beach from Teluk Gadung all the way to Tanah Lot.

Below is the coverage in Utusan Malaysia's online edition on 26 April 2012.

Utusan Malaysia MEGA, 26 April 2012

On 13 April 2012, Ocean Elements once again successfully organised a Project AWARE Beach Cleanup event in Dungun, Terengganu. This is the second year we organised such an event in Dungun and our fifth year of organising a Project AWARE coral reef conservation program.

This year’s event was wholly sponsored by Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad (Bank Islam) as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives.

400 people, mostly from schools and academic institutions in Dungun area and the government agencies turned up to help clean the 10km stretch of beach from Teluk Gadung all the way to Tanah Lot.

Below is the coverage in Utusan Malaysia's MEGA pullout on 26 April 2012.

Utusan Malaysia MEGA, 26 April 2012

Corporate Volunteering in Conservation Activities

Ocean Elements was quoted by Project AWARE on their website article on "Corporate Volunteering in Asia Pacific".

Quoted from the Project AWARE website:

Ocean Elements, Malaysia has held Project AWARE activities with dive teams from Shell Malaysia,British American Tobacco (BAT), Canon Malaysia and Det Norske Veritas (DNV) Kuala Lumpur. In May 2010 28 staff from DNV joined the beach cleanup and at Payar Island, Langkawi, Malaysia. “We organized the beach cleanup event and Coral Reef Conservation Specialty course as part of their PADI Open Water dive trip,” said Mohd Halimi Abdullah, Ocean Elements Director. “We educate them why coral reef conservation is so important and how the beach and underwater cleanups can help. Project AWARE makes this job much easier for us, with valuable information and resources on the website.”